Head of Application Management – Investment / Risk Tech

Overview

In this senior leadership role, you own and shape the application management function, ensuring a stable, secure portfolio aligned with business strategy. You lead a large team, drive service improvements, and manage suppliers and governance to support investment and operational functions. You’ll collaborate with senior stakeholders to prioritise technology services and risk controls, delivering resilient, compliant operations. This hybrid role offers strategic influence within a well-established financial services organisation and a clear path to impact at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salary
• excellent benefits

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a large application management function, including capability and succession planning
• Own application services supporting key investment and operational functions
• Establish service management, incident, problem, and governance practices
• Manage strategic technology suppliers, outsourced services, contracts and service performance
• Oversee budgets, resource allocation, financial reporting and cost control
• Partner with senior stakeholders to align services with business priorities
• Support technology change programmes and service transition into BAU
• Ensure risk, security, regulatory controls, and operational resilience across the portfolio
• Drive continuous improvement and standardisation of application management across teams

Key requirements

• Significant experience leading application management, services, or enterprise support teams
• Experience within Investment Management or Risk Operations
• Strong IT service management background in complex, regulated environments
• Experience managing large, business-critical application portfolios and suppliers
• Strong commercial acumen including vendor negotiations, contracts and budgets
• Understanding of application architecture, infrastructure dependencies, technology change and service transition
• Proven experience leading managers and developing high-performing teams
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Financial services experience in investment management, asset management, wealth management or banking (relevant)

• leadership and people development
• stakeholder influencing
• clear communication
• IT service management
• application management and support
• supplier and contract management

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